Students must not Criticize School Censorship!

Although their right to do so is exceedingly dubious, some schools try to tell their students what they can and cannot do after hours in their own homes using their own computers. One student in the Plainfield School District of Illinois who protested about that and said on the net that he felt "bullied" by the school is now facing expulsion.

"The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck."

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Is there no limit to the arrogance of these schools? It may need a Supreme Court case to cut them down to size. The court has ruled previously that students are protected by the First Amendment even when they are AT school, as long as what they say does not disrupt teaching.




Blunt Swede Gets into Trouble with a London University

That teaching has been a second priority for professors at top universities is a truth known almost from time immemorial but you are not supposed to say so -- particularly if you are a professor talking to a group of sstudents. But one did:

"Erik Ringmar, a senior lecturer in government, went on to tell sixth formers thinking of applying to the London School of Economics (LSE) that the real teaching was done by PhD students. The in-class student experience was no better than they would get at the far less prestigious London Metropolitan University - in fact they might see more of the academic staff there."

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The university administration had a fit, of course, and they have done all they could to shut him up but he is accusing them of trying to stifle his free speech.




Hilarious! ACLU Denies Free Speech to its own Members

Free speech is apparently not an important civil liberty to the ACLU:

"The ACLU has always been a strong First Amendment advocate, but the pro-abortion group is planning to toss aside the free speech rights of its board members after some of them criticized the group for supporting a Congressional abortion bill that would unfairly target pregnancy centers."

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Killing babies comes first! No interest in open debate there.